"Please, please, please..." In a secluded shack, Andy was guided by the toad to one of the relatively open rooms, where in the middle of the room was a crude table made of wooden crates and a few stools beside it.

As soon as Andy sat down, a large number of things were placed on the table, including all kinds of pre-war canned food, fresh jerky, bottled water, large and small pastries...

"Are you rich in material things here?" He picked through the pile, and suddenly found a compound syringe that looked a little old, the syringe had not yet been opened, and the contents were still intact.

"What is this?" He held up the syringe, and the toad rubbed his hands and just smiled dryly, but didn't answer.

"Hey, didn't you hear?" The toad coughed embarrassedly twice, and then perfunctorily said that this was a medicine, but if he asked for details, he would talk about the rest.

Mark took a closer look and said his opinion firmly.

"It's crazy, it's original, it's rare..... Before the war, it was a military product produced by Chase R&D, and after using this thing, it had a great impact on people's sanity, and it was not allowed to be used in the NcR regulations, and only some crazy marauder gangs would use this thing without moderation. Andy turned the compound syringe in his hand a few times, he had already heard of this thing, but he didn't expect to see the real thing today, it is said that after injecting this thing, an ordinary person will be able to get a glimmer of life in the life-and-death fight against the wasteland monsters, because it can make people achieve a strong desire to fight and combat ability in the blink of an eye.

However, the stock of this thing is not high, and it was by no means available to ordinary people long before the war, and most of the addicts in the wasteland used it was still widely used

"Jett" is a special hallucinogenic gas processed from two-headed cow dung as a raw material.

You may think it's funny, but when you see the scrawny and blinded guys lying dead on the corner of the road with empty jet cans, you understand how horrible these two-headed bulls are.

"It's the first time I've heard of Chase R&D, is it a big pre-war company?" Andy looked at Mark, he always had a lot of insight into the pre-war information, but when he asked, he replied that he knew it all from reading books in the library of the Followers of the Apocalypse, and after thinking about it, he only felt that this reason was very perfunctory.

Mark looked at the syringe as if thoughtful.

"To be precise, it was a large pre-war corporation with a national and military background, and its actual controller was an SA general, and their most famous product was this madness, which, as its name suggests, is completely the embodiment of the concept of madness. The spread of this kind of stuff would have had a very bad effect, but at that time the SA was mired in war...... In some sources, the soldiers at the front were supplied in almost unlimited quantities. "Beatrice seems to be interested in madness.

"Oh..... If Beatrice uses this..... Burst... Everything—" Mark glanced at Beatrice a little indifferently.

"Super mutants' bodies have been modified by the FEV virus, and even if you can find a syringe that can pierce your veins, those compounds will only be quickly metabolized by you, and this thing is meaningless to you." Andy threw the syringe back on the table, then put his feet on the table by the way, and while they were chatting, the toad was whispering that his little brother didn't have long eyes, and actually mixed contraband into other things and sent them over.

"Alright..... Let's get down to business. He beckoned to the toad, and the other party immediately came over with a fart.

"Your fame has spread, even the people in the dam ding area know your name on the road, I came here this time to see, you are selling fakes to the public? Still buying and selling? ”

"I'm just a small businessman, and I've always been kind to people...."

"Nonsense, take your wine as an example, people say that a lot of it is sour water, you honestly explain, do you usually put your guys' night pots into the wine you sell to make up the number?"

"No, no, absolutely not! You see that my small business is not easy, those wines are from some small workshops, although the products are generally good quality and cheap, but it is inevitable that there are some cases of fermentation that are not in place, this.... In the future, we will strive to deepen communication with manufacturers and improve standards, so that this situation will not occur again in the future. Andy wanted to knock a few words casually, but he didn't realize that although this toad was nicknamed Toad, his mouth was very hard.

"Yo, you don't think you're wrong at all, do you?" The toad took out a small tissue and wiped his sweat.

"Of course not, of course not, this ..... Due to the limited conditions, we can't compare the quality of the goods with the big caravans in the dam crest area, and the cost of freight is also very high, so it is inevitable that the goods will occasionally have some quality defects.... The variety of goods that can be provided in each time period is limited, and if the customer who has made an appointment refuses to buy after the arrival of the goods, our loss is very large, and it is not easy for us...."

"Then what do I mean when I heard that you want to regret not buying goods when people come to you and can't eat and walk around?"

"This.... In fact, you misunderstood, for those customers who are sure to have suffered a serious loss of profit because of our products, we will definitely provide decent compensation, we will invite the target customers to our reception, well, free food and drink, and even take some of them away when leaving, do you see this fully reflects our hospitality..."A quibble heard Mark sneer disdainfully, and Andy shook his head when he heard it.

"Okay, okay, I said it before, although Sheriff Ralph asked me to come here to deal with this matter, but I'm not a real police officer after all, and you can't tell me these strange things. I'm not going to go around in circles with you, let's be straightforward, first of all, those illegal drugs can't appear in Hoover Dam City from today, otherwise the next time you come here to talk to you, I'm afraid they won't be as civilized as me. The toad nodded again and again to indicate that he understood.

"After that, don't sell those fakes anymore." Now the toad grinned, and seemed to disagree.

"We don't have any fakes here... Look at all of this, none of them are fake, I don't change the meat in the canned meat for stone, and then who will come to me to buy something. Andy picked up the can of meat on the table, which was packaged in a scrap metal can, but as soon as he picked it up, he felt that the weight was wrong, it was too light compared to the size of the jar.

Fingers forcefully broke open the can, and saw that it contained less than half of the amount.

"You're selling one can as two?"

"No, no, no, it's all a little mistake when the manufacturer was filling...."

"You're lying again, the traces on the mouth of this jar have obviously been re-suppressed and sealed after being opened." Andy snapped the can on the table.

"If you continue like this, won't there be many people who will be cheated by you, you are simply lawless! If I send you to Black Canyon Prison, what will happen to you? The toad's face twitched, and he finally couldn't hold back his emotions.

"If I hadn't been in this business, Hoover Dam City would have become a lot more chaotic, there would have been a lot of people starving to death, and a lot of people would have fled or simply started crime and robbery, and what I did was definitely a good thing for everyone, and Mayor Dodge and Sheriff Ralph wouldn't have sent me to Black Canyon Prison as a worthless labor prisoner who built railroads all day." Andy furrowed his eyebrows, but he was a little interested in the smuggler's self-defense, so he didn't interrupt him.

When the toad became agitated, even the leper on his face began to turn red, and the wide mouth made people worry that he would croak in the next second.

"Over the years, the taxes collected by the NcR have become heavier and heavier, but the citizens have less and less bottle caps earned, they keep saying that they have protected our safety, but even the mayor of Dodge himself was so frightened by the assassins of the Iron Brotherhood that he hid in the military headquarters and did not dare to come out, in the past, we were free to go to various regions in the east to find opportunities to earn bottle caps, but we didn't even dare to go out of the Hoover Dam, for fear of dying halfway outside for various reasons, which door is this protecting?"

"Ever since the Crimson Caravans began supplying the army with guns and ammunition, Mayor Dodge has turned a blind eye to their greed, and they sell things at ridiculously high prices, and not everyone has bottle caps to buy their food and medicine..... If they can't even buy what I have, are they going to jump off the Hoover Dam? He picked up a bottle of water from the table.

"It's getting harder and harder to even drink water now, and Mayor Dodger's waste can't even solve the problem of water. During this period of time, it was difficult for the water produced by the Hoover Dam to drink into the mouth, and everyone tried their best to make the water as clean as possible, some people filtered it with filters made of mutated plant leaves, and some people repeatedly boiled the water.... No one wants to be like the dwarf Mirko at the top of the dam and start going crazy because of drinking water, and in the end, most people can only choose to buy clean water. ”

"The clean water sold by the Crimson caravans is several times more expensive than what we sell, but their water is not as clean as ours, and the water is all from the natives of the eastern tribes, and they sell it after they are transported to the Hoover Dam and are not treated. Our water is not only cheap, but also absolutely clean, and we are working for the benefit of the poor in Hoover Dam City! The more the toad spoke, the more excited he became, and he was convinced of what he said.

Andy even applauded him, and the toad recovered from his excited state with a slightly embarrassed expression.

"Okay, okay, you're going to run for mayor anyway.... Don't go on talking nonsense, I can tell you that the current situation is that the crazy illegal drugs you sell and the smuggled water that doesn't pay taxes have caught the attention of the big people at the top of the dam. The wise thing to do is to immediately look for a while, and give up the bottle caps that should be abandoned, and the future will be long....."

"But now that the self-produced water from the Hoover Dam is getting more and more polluted, sooner or later everyone will have to buy water, what are you going to do then? Watching those poor people die of thirst or being forced to drink dirty water and drink it to the point of madness? Are you going to sit back and watch this happen for your own benefit? Andy slowly stood up and walked over to the toad, he had his own plan in mind for this question.

"Hey, role-playing is pretty much enough, you black marketeers and gang leaders who can't get on the stage have really started to think from the moral high ground, you don't have to worry about that, you just have to be obedient. How to deal with the problem of water and the red caravan, naturally someone has to worry about it, you, from today onwards, remove the medicine and water from your cargo list, otherwise you will not end well. ”